In Ant how do you exclude a directory from copy or zip

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elektrophyte - 30 Sep 2005 20:18 GMT

I understand from the Ant manual how to create a <fileset> with nested
<exclude> elements. I can get it to exclude files that have names
matching a given pattern.

I would like to exclude certain entire directories. Not just the files
within the directory (that could be done with "<exclude
name="**/DIR_NAME/*"></exclude>"). I would like to exclude even the
directory itself from the root.

I've tried name="DIR_NAME".

I've considered using a "DirSet" instead of a "fileset" but it appears
that the copy and zip tasks do not support the DirSet element.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

E

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elektrophyte - 30 Sep 2005 20:31 GMT

I figured it out.

<exclude name="**/DIR_NAME/**" />

I'd still appreciate any comments on a better/more efficient approach.

Thanks,

E

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Alan Krueger - 02 Oct 2005 01:29 GMT

> I figured it out.
>
> <exclude name="**/DIR_NAME/**" />
>
> I'd still appreciate any comments on a better/more efficient approach.

What happens if you do this?

<exclude name="**/DIR_NAME"/>

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Roedy Green - 02 Oct 2005 03:12 GMT

><exclude name="**/DIR_NAME"/>

That is not kosher XML is it?

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Owen Jacobson - 02 Oct 2005 04:39 GMT

>><exclude name="**/DIR_NAME"/>
>
> That is not kosher XML is it?

Looks fine to me... tag delimiter, tag identifier, attribute identifier,
attribute delimiter ('='), quoted string ("**/DIR_NAME"), terminating
slash for an empty tag, tag delimiter.

It just means an exclude element with name="**/DIR_NAME" and no content.

-Owen

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Roedy Green - 02 Oct 2005 05:35 GMT

>Looks fine to me... tag delimiter, tag identifier, attribute identifier,
>attribute delimiter ('='), quoted string ("**/DIR_NAME"), terminating
>slash for an empty tag, tag delimiter.

The reason I say that is when I did XHTML validation, it insisted on a
space before />

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Alan Krueger - 02 Oct 2005 16:31 GMT

>>Looks fine to me... tag delimiter, tag identifier, attribute identifier,
>>attribute delimiter ('='), quoted string ("**/DIR_NAME"), terminating
>>slash for an empty tag, tag delimiter.
>
> The reason I say that is when I did XHTML validation, it insisted on a
> space before />

As I understand it, that's some voodoo to get "older browsers" to take
XHTML, not anything to do with XML.

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